Is Obamacare a tax? Chuck Schumer says ‘Ask Mitt Romney’ [AUDIO]

New York Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer is “very pleased” the Supreme Court upheld the individual mandate as a tax but when asked if he thinks the mandate is a tax, Schumer told The Daily Caller to “ask Mitt Romney.”

“I can say in my view that it certainly merited upholding under the commerce clause and you know, I think, I do worry in the future about the courts limiting the commerce clause as a way of limiting the ability of the federal government to help average families,” Schumer said.

Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the majority opinion that the “Affordable Care Act’s requirement that certain individuals pay a financial penalty for not obtaining health insurance may reasonably be characterized as a tax.”